From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
JESSE JACKSONHe should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I’d say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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